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Google declined Ars' request to confirm whether talks were underway or if the company was open to separating its crawlers.
The company will also introduce a "pay-per-crawl" system to give users more fine-grained control over how AI companies can ...
The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.
Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.
Cloudflare reshapes the AI landscape by blocking Big Tech AI bot crawlers by default, allowing websites to demand payment for ...
Cloudflare, one of the world's largest content delivery networks and web security service providers, is taking on AI bots ...
Cloudflare’s new model is an attempt to put the control of online content back into the hands of its original creators and owners. It follows a similar attempt by Creative Commons, which recently ...
The era of unrestricted AI crawling appears to be ending - well, at least for the fifth of the internet that flows through ...
Major publications have already signed up, including Ziff Davis, The Atlantic, ADWEEK, BuzzFeed, Time, O’Reilly Media, ...
Google challenges Cloudflare’s anti-scraping tech; are dupes plagiarism?; web traffic is careening off a cliff.
Cloudflare will block AI bots from crawling websites by default for new customers, and broker pay-per-crawl deals between its ...